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Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger c. A.D. 61-c. 113 Roman scholar and official whose published letters illustrated life during the Roman Empire. Following his father's death, Pliny the Younger was adopted by h... Read more

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Pliny the Younger

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Pliny the Younger (ca. 61-ca. 113) was a Roman author and administrator. He left a collection of letters which offers intimate glimpses into public and private life during the Roman Empire.Born of the... Read more

Pliny the Younger

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The younger Pliny was seventeen when Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, according to his Epistulae (Epistles, A.D. 103-A.D. 109, 6. 20), a fact that situates his birth in late A.D. 61 or early A.D. 62. He w... Read more